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A maritime county of England bounded by Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Devon and the English Channel
{i} Dorsetshire, county in south England
a county in southwest England, with many popular holiday towns on its coast. The writer Thomas Hardy set most of his novels in Dorset, which he called 'Wessex'. Administrative (pop., 2001: 390,986), geographic, and historic county, southwestern England. It is located on the English Channel; its county seat is Dorchester. Prehistoric peoples were active in the area and left abundant monuments dating from the Neolithic Period, Bronze Age, and Iron Age, including Maiden Castle, a huge earthworks just outside Dorchester. The area subsequently became part of the West Saxon kingdom. As Wessex, it appears in the writings of Thomas Hardy

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Dorset Horn
A domestic sheep of a breed having large horns and medium-length, fine-textured wool
Thomas 1st earl of Dorset Sackville
born 1536, Buckhurst, Sussex, Eng. died April 19, 1608, London English politician and poet. A London barrister, he entered Parliament in 1558. He was a member of the Privy Council (1585) and conveyed the death sentence to Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1586. He later served on diplomatic missions to The Hague and served as lord high treasurer (1599-1608). He was also noted as the coauthor of The Tragedie of Gorboduc (1561), the earliest English drama in blank verse, and for his "Induction," the most famous part of the verse collection A Myrrour for Magistrates (1563)
dorset

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    Dor·set

    Турецкое произношение

    dôrsît

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    /ˈdôrsət/ /ˈdɔːrsɪt/
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